The Rev. Jesse Jackson advocated for the people. They came in droves to visit him one last time.

Marcus Jones had left his house in Calumet City in the dark and arrived at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters not long after 7 a.m. He’d come “to be a part of history,” on the first day of public visitations for the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

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